Olympic 12' Ali circa 1959

[stephen&Julie]

Hi All,
Recovered this circa 1959 Olympic 12’ Ali over the weekend, its amazing how a van can sit in the paddock for 15+ years, jockey wheel buried half way up the shaft and wheels buried up to the rims, all I’ve done is change the wheels over, grease a few nipples, tighten down the hatch and drove from 1770 to Tweed heads (6.5 hours) without a glitch, always amaze’s me, anyways a quick clean before we set off from Bundy and she came up a treat.









Cheers Stephen&Julie

[Don Ricardo]

Excellent effort Stephen&Julie.

It's great to see one of these rare pre-fibreglass Olympics rescued. The styling is so late 50's/early 60's reflecting the angular 'space age' design cues also followed by Carapark, Adventurer and Clipper for some of their models around the same time.

As you say, it is amazing that the van took relatively little work to get it mobile. But equally amazing that it looks so incredibly good after a bit of a wash.

Did we work out what Ford the rear lights are off?

Don Ricardo

[JBJ]

Hi Steve

I love this van. But I dont want another project, so I cant buy it from you.
JBJ

[stephen&Julie]

Well you just cant explain how an old van thats been sitting in the paddock for ages can be resurrected and travel over 1000ks with minimal effort, just shows how well they made some vans
Cheers S&J

[philouise]

Stephen and Julie

What a great little van, congratulations Stephen on another "save".

Regards
Phil and Louise

[margra]

I have the copy of the original olympic badge that would have been on your van if you want one or two let me know. my van is a 1956 says boblor and will be at the nationals 2016.

[stephen&Julie]

Thankyou, would be greatly appreciated
Cheers S&J

[margra]

please send me a pm and let me know your mail address and I will mail you a copy of the decal and you can decide whatever you do with it. I am going to get mine done in a larger size so that it can be read easy as they are only about 3 x 2 inches from new. I got biggger ones made about 5 x 4 and they are in good condition with good detail. The originals were printed on sticky aluminium type foil.